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William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Bloodshed piled on bloodshed.

A few months before Dr. King was murdered, two of my high school classmates, white teens, were charged with shooting and killing in cold blood a Black teen in our hometown. He was shot from their car as he walked on a road near his house. It was well known that a third white boy in my class was also in the car, but he was the son of an influential doctor and not charged.

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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William Lindsey :toad:
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@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

By this time, I had lived through (and well remember) the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the murder of Medgar Evers, the murders of Viola Liuzzo, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the attempted murder of James Meredith, the Birmingham church bombings and klling of four Black girls, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair.

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William Lindsey :toad:
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@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Bloodshed piled on bloodshed.

A few months before Dr. King was murdered, two of my high school classmates, white teens, were charged with shooting and killing in cold blood a Black teen in our hometown. He was shot from their car as he walked on a road near his house. It was well known that a third white boy in my class was also in the car, but he was the son of an influential doctor and not charged.

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

The two white teens who were charged for the killing were exonerated by a jury of all white men. The whole town knew the three white teens were guilty. They bragged openly about what they had done.

This was the world in which I came of age.

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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